Interactive Online Presentations Made SimpleAmyr Haq Office Mix Evangelistv-ahaq@microsoft.com / @amyrhaq on Twitter

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Challenges for Online Presentations• Difficult to author online

lessons

• Difficult to make them engaging

• Difficult to publish and share

• Difficult to get relevant analytics

What is Office Mix?What is Office Mix?

1. Free add-in for PowerPoint that makes it easy to create interactive online lessons

2. Free web-portal to publish, share, and see analytics for lessons

3. Browser-based interactive player for lessons that works on all devices

4. Extensible platform supporting novel interactibles, embedding, analytics, … leveraging standards

Office Mix Demo

What you just saw• Authoring familiar and simple as

PowerPoint

• Start from or revise existing decks

• Adding interactivity simple as adding clip-art

• Share easily and securely

• Rich playback on all devices

• Built-in analytics for insights

• Free

• Publish to thousands of sites and platforms via

• oEmbed

• embed.ly

• SCORM

• Supported: LTI Integration

Embed Experience

SharePoint

BlogsFacebook Twitter

LTI (sample)MoodleedX

And thousands more

Sign up for 1-on-1 help: http://aka.ms/mix101

Amyr Haq Office Mix Evangelist

v-ahaq@microsoft.com

@amyrhaq on Twitter

Some Example Mixes

Math and science teachers• https://mix.office.com/watch/18t946yrxiv01

• https://mix.office.com/watch/7llhx8x60jna

• https://mix.office.com/watch/2dhwh9vlfmfx

• https://mix.office.com/watch/1cymc9f28i4jw

English and language arts teachers• https://mix.office.com/watch/16ek109czjvfc

• https://mix.office.com/watch/1mzfew5bnch2m

Young children• https://mix.office.com/watch/1dq7aydog

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Professional development• https://mix.office.com/watch/1hhtqzwus

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Tips and Tricks• If old PowerPoint deck, then open and save as “pptx” with PowerPoint 2013.

• Use external webcam. Better A-V quality. No stylus noise.

• Audio is key. Adjust microphone volume with slider in recording pane until signal-bar shows activity until middle of scale. Consider external microphone like Blue Yeti, Nessie.

• Record first slide, and playback to see all ok before recording other slides.

• Pause briefly between slides. It makes it easy to re-record individual ones.

• Use video where essential, but audio-only allows greater focus on content and delivery.

• Ensure video check-box off when uploading, until close to final version. It considerably slows down the publishing process.

Useful LinksFor users:

• Office Mix: http://mix.office.com

• Office Mix for Education: http://mixforteachers.com and https://mix.office.com/watch/14iqkll3cdyv

• Get copy of Office 365 / PowerPoint-2013: http://office.com/getoffice365

For IT administrators and developers:

• Apps for Office: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj220082(v=office.15).aspx

• Office Mix Labs: https://github.com/officedev/labs.js

• Player.JS: http://playerjs.io/

• edX integration: https://github.com/officedev/xblock-officemix

• Moodle Integration: https://msopentech.com/blog/2015/01/19/moodle-office365

AdministratorsProfessional development

Leadership communications

StudentsProject reports

Storytelling

Communication Skills

TeachersBlended learning and flipped classrooms

Sharing best practices and lessons with colleagues

Online Presentations for Education

Extending Mix

Apps for Office• Standard for MS Office

• Office.js and Labs.js

• Add new types of interactibles

Player.js• Open source Player APIs

• Host can manage player easily

• Adjust look and feel

2Player implements Player.js

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Interactive elements are Apps for Office (HTML5+JS)